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Date:      Wed, 27 May 2009 14:45:18 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com>
To:        Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions -" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Another uptime story
Message-ID:  <b79ecaef0905270645i500318efn9e71cff1ea58faf5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ad871310905262234s35857487xbf631bea45a018e@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/5/27 Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
>> Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds
>> the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the
>> actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime stands for,
>> let's call it accumulated uptime. :-)
>>
>
> I like that idea, actually.. Not for faking cumulative uptime. =A0It'd
> be kinda nice knowing how long a particular machine has been 'alive'
> without looking through service tag records.
>
> --
> Glen Barber

How about:

[chris@amnesiac]~% ls -l /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  324 Apr 15  2008 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
[chris@amnesiac]~%

I think I'd cry if I were to lose 553 days of uptime....

Chris


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